USB scanners are broken

fedora.core2 at chello.nl fedora.core2 at chello.nl
Wed Mar 10 08:28:37 UTC 2004


Jurgen wrote: 
> Right.  The usbscanner kernel module was removed after 2.6.1 (which
> is the kernel in the original FC2 Test 1).  So in FC2t1 it still
> worked, thereafter USB scanners are broken.
> 
> And they really should be considered /broken/.  Although the
> usbscanner module was apparently removed with the idea that
> scanning should be done via the libusb thing, this seems to
> be not a mature, working solution at this point.  Probably
> best thing for Fedora would be to add the usbscanner module
> back in with a kernel patch for now.
> 

Yes please!!!! I need a working scanner under FC2.

If usblib is unstable then we need a usbscanner module in the kernel.

Hay





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